Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to im­me­di­ate­ly ap­point a board of di­rec­tors for the East Port-of-Spain De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny, ques­tion­ing whether the pro­longed de­lay sig­nals an in­ten­tion to shut down the com­pa­ny.

Mar­celle said it has been al­most a year and a half since the com­pa­ny has had a board. He al­so claimed 12 work­ers were sent home last week and sev­er­al oth­er con­tracts were not re­newed this year.

Mar­celle said the com­pa­ny is now op­er­at­ing with less than half of its reg­u­lar work­force.He claimed work­ers told him man­age­ment at­trib­uted the job cuts to a lack of Gov­ern­ment fund­ing to con­tin­ue nor­mal op­er­a­tions.